Invent Your Retirement: Resources for the Good Life

by Art Koff

Seniors today face a great many challenges not faced by their parents and grandparents. In the twenty-first century the traditional notion of retirement - to stop working and enjoy your spare time -... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886939764
• ISBN13: 9781886939769
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: OakHill Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A quality reference for soon-to-be retirees searching for a "user-friendly" guide in preparing for r

Very highly recommended and informative reading, Invent Your Retirement: Resources For The Good Life by Art Koff is a quality reference for soon-to-be retirees searching for a "user-friendly" guide in preparing for retirement. Educating readers on all aspects and foresight into retirement, Invent Your Retirement covers a decision process consisting of tips and tactics to determine an ideal residential location, longevity via exercise, working, volunteering, further schooling, dietary adjustments, adopting a pet, understanding memory loss, beginning a business or home office, becoming computer literate, protecting credit, funding retirement, estate planning, investment strategies, insightful health matters, prescription drugs, assisted living, long-term care insurance, nursing homes, and understanding how Social Security and Medicare. Invent Your Retirement is a superb collection of useful and instructive material for successful retired living.

"Invent your Retirement" IS a great resource for the good life.

As an RN I found Invent Your Retirement to be a very informative book. It is an excellent resource for those thinking about retirement as well as seniors who have already retired. The book is clearly written and provides concise information. We don't just stop when we retire. Art Koff understands this and explores ways seniors can stay intellectually active, keep health care coverage and medical costs down and, suggests places where seniors who want to work can apply to get part time or temporary employment. This book is filled with web sites that yield valuable information. It sensitively but thoroughly explores emotional issues such as assisted living, memory loss and, estate planning. It is very easy to read and is written is an uncomplicated and straightforward manner. I found it insightful and educational. I highly recommend it if you either are a senior, have a loved one who is a senior, or are approaching your retirement. I give it 5 stars.

For now or for the future - a must read

Reviewed by Robert Watson for Reader Views (4/06) Retirement! Some can't wait, some hold off as long as possible and some have no clue what retirement really means to them. Art Koff has designed a concise and positive manual for the senior who is facing the challenges of the next phase of their life. A guide to nurture that new business, develop new social ties, make a difference with all that new available time, or just become computer literate, it's all there. Any aspect of life that could possibly effect or influence the retiree is detailed in this hand book, allowing the reader to develop a renewed attitude towards retirement. Approaching the retirement zone myself at sixty-five years, I had many questions needing answers and Koff provided the necessary tools to find the positive direction I needed to continue. He also inspired me to stretch and look outside the box for the real answers. This encouraged me to remain in the working world for an additional, maybe five, possibly ten, more fulfilling years. Koff's style and simplicity in creating this book make it a joy to have on your shelf for a future reference as well as being an informative read.

Great Resource

As a senior myself I found Invent Your Retirement to be an excellent resource guide providing me not only with information in areas where I have an interest like prescription drugs, memory loss and continuing education, but also web sites and books where I can find more detailed information on these and a host of other senior related topics. Great find!

Don't retire without this book!

If you are retired, close to retirement, or have family members or friends close to retirement, this book is for you. Author Art Koff (a senior who surely knows how to keep busy) has compiled a wealth of readable and informative material that covers almost every conceivable subject and question a senior or retiree can have. Retirement, says Koff, doesn't mean sitting back in the rocking chair and watching the world pass you by. Seniors today have more choices and more opportunity than ever before. But a multitude of choices also means a multitude of questions. Are you puzzled about social security and health costs and insurance questions? Are you thinking of going back to work or volunteering? Do you want to learn how to use e-mail? Are you concerned about memory loss? This book provides you with the answers to these and other questions. Koff has brought together information from numerous sources, including federal agencies such as the Social Security Administration and Medicare and the Departments of Agriculture, Labor, State, and the Food and Drug Administration, plus private individuals and organizations like the AARP and the Alzheimer's Association. If you want to become computer literate and a proficient Internet user (and Koff strongly thinks seniors should do this), the book supplies an understandable computer primer. This gives specific commands to do everything from forwarding e-mail to playing music CDs to renaming Word documents. You may not have thought about many of the topics Koff discusses, including protecting your credit, setting up your home office, the best employers for part-time workers, and choosing a pet. (Learn why Koff thinks long-haired cats are good choices for retirees.) Throughout the book are numerous references, websites, addresses, and phone numbers to help you get more information. Presumably this material will be updated in future editions. Invent Your Retirement is an invaluable and readable resource for seniors. Don't retire without it.